Growth, Inequality, and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: Recent Global Evidence

By A. Fosu. 2017

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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African Economic Outlook 2012 (2012, background): “Income-growth elasticities of poverty are from Fosu (2011).”
The Role of Information Sharing in Modulating the Effect of Financial Access on Inequality (2019, unknown): “In the light of the motivation of this study, inequality, extreme poverty and growth resurgence are related in the perspective that the response of poverty to growth in Africa is a decreasing function of inequality (Fosu, 2011).”
Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa (2014, background): “In Malawi and Rwanda, the increase in the share of employment in industry came from 5 See for example Fosu (2011). non-manufacturing sectors, such as mining and construction.”
Reinventing Foreign Aid for Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Kuznets, Piketty and the Great Policy Reversal (2016, unknown): “…of poverty is actually larger than the income elasticity of poverty” (Fosu, 2010c, p. 1432); and “In general, high initial levels of inequality limit the effectiveness of growth in reducing poverty while growing inequality increases poverty directly for a given level of growth” (Fosu, 2011, p. 11).”
Poverty and Economic Growth in Nigeria: Issues and Policies (2017, background): “This trend has been witnessed in some advanced and emerging economies of Europe, America, and Asia where number of people living in poverty fell as per capita income increased (see Farrington, 2006; Fosu, 2010; Roemer & Gugerty, 1997; Warr, 2000).”
Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recent Progress in a Global Context (2015, methodology): “In sum, income growth appears to be the main contributor to poverty reduction among SSA countries, which is consistent with the global evidence (Dollar & Kraay, 2002; Fosu, 2011).”
Inequality, Economic Growth and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (2014, background): “…Bangladesh; Lombardo (2008) for Italy; Deolalikar (2002) for Thailand; Fosu (2009) for Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries compared to non-SSA ones; Fosu (2010) for the major regions of the world and for a select global sample of 80 countries; and Anyanwu and Erhijakpor (2010) for a cross-section…”
Has Digital Financial Inclusion Narrowed the Urban-Rural Income Gap: The Role of Entrepreneurship in China (2021, background): “It is generally believed that ﬁnancial development can inﬂuence the urban-rural income gap through threshold effect, poverty alleviation effect and disequilibrium effect [41].”
Is It All About the Tails? The Palma Measure of Income Inequality (2013, unknown): “…Cornia et al., 2004; Easterly, 2002) and high or rising national income inequality is likely to be a drag on poverty reduction (see, for discussion, Fosu, 2011; Misselhorn and Klasen, 2006; Ravallion, 2005) so while it may be the case that growth (still) is good for the poor in a general sense or…”